ChristineBauserman

Former Special Assistant

Former Special Assistant, Office of Lands and Minerals Management

Christine Bauserman formerly worked as a “special assistant… in the office of the assistant secretary for lands and minerals and often attended policy briefings with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.” She resigned from her position at Interior on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 “after her social media activity was revealed by CNN.” A “search of her social media accounts revealed that she routinely shared conspiracy theories, false statements and racially tinged comments about Muslims and African Americans.”

Before working at Interior, Christine Bauserman ran industry groups in Arizona while trying to kill Medicaid expansion. She also hurled insults at a city councilman, when the political action committee she co-chaired ran robocalls calling him “‘a crooked politician and a sexual predator.'” Bauserman also worked as a political consultant for GOP candidates for the Arizona Legislature, before working as the Arizona regional field director for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

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Christine Bauserman is a “Republican activist” who has run groups that attacked Democratic candidates and “sought to stop Medicaid expansion” in Arizona. In 2015, one of the groups she ran was sued for not registering with the Arizona Corporation Commission.

As of 2015, Christine Bauserman was the president of the Foundation for Responsible Accountable Government, a “‘dark money’ group.” Under Bauserman’s leadership, opponents sued the Foundation for Responsible Accountable Government, claiming the corporation was “not registered to do business in Arizona.”

As of 2015, Christine Bauserman was the co-chair of the political action committee Revitalize Tucson. The group, in 2015, paid for robocalls to Tucson voters that called a “Democratic City Councilman… ‘a crooked politician and a sexual predator.'”

Prior to entering the Trump Administration, Christine Bauserman was the chairwoman of United Republican Alliance of Principled Conservatives, a group that “sought to stop Medicaid expansion” in Arizona.